Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3280, Zoeth Eldridge, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Eldridge, Loeth or Eldredge
R. 3280
Bethiah
CONTENTS

State of Connecticut Tolland County } ss
November
On this 6 th day of September A. D. 1838 Personally appeared before the court of Probate for the District of Tolland now in session in said Tolland within said District (Margaret Estelle Eldredge) a resident of Wallington in said District aged Seventy-eight years who first being duly sworn accor- -ding to law doth on her oath make the following affidavit in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress passed July 7 th A. D. 1838 - entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Zeph Eldredge late of said Wallington deceased who was a soldier in the revolution and performed the following tours of service (viz) about one month in the year 1775 in the State of Massachusetts at or near Watertown in a Company Comma- -nded by Capt Ebenezer Swift, this service was undered as a volunteer. The second tour was in the same year by enlistment for three months six months and as I have been informed and always understood that Capt Solomon Wells commanded the Company and the Colonel's name was Isaac Spencer and according to my best knowledge and belief he was stationed at Roxbury Massachusetts and I have been informed that he remained in this service longer than the period of his enlistment about one month - The third tour was performed in 1776 in the State of New York in a Company commanded by Capt Joseph Parsons being the Capt of a Company.

of Militia located in the south part of said Town of Willington as to the particulars of the service rendered by my late husband. I must rely on the testimony of others although I have frequently heard him speak of the three different tours of service set forth in this declaration.
She further declares that she was married to the said Barth Eldridge at Willington aforesaid on the 16 th day of Oct r 1779 and her husband the said Barth died on the 18 th day of March A.D. 1828. and that she has ever since remained a widow - Elizabeth Eldridge
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate.
At a Court of Probate held at Tolland within and for the District of Tolland on the 6 th day of November 1838.
Present Novatus Chapman Judge
Personally appeared the within named Elizabeth Eldridge who has subscribed the foregoing declaration and made solemn oath that the matters therein stated are true.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 6 th day of November A.D. 1838.
Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate for Tolland District

Bethia Eldridge Conn.
Oct. 1838. Susp d
A. Markland

State of Connecticut County of Tolland
} of Willington
Be it Known, that on this 4th day of November A. D. 185 8 before me, the under-
signed, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Polly Pearl Pessian Freeman Abigail Eldridge  Oliver  Mercy  Sophrona  Pearl & Jessica  Moulton resident of the town of Willington in said County, and made oath according to law that that they are the child of  Abigail Eldridge  his  widow  having  made  application  for  the  benefit  of the Pension Act of 7th July 1838
who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 7th July 1838 that she is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or argu- ments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Widow Abigail Eldridge  Mrs. Deborah  for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Sophrona Pearl
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Sophrona Pearl to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Lucien Holt Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut County of Tolland
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Tolland County that Sophrona Pearl the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the child  the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Lucien Holt Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office,
this Ninth day of November 185 8
Joseph Bishop Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3 "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

13444
Bethiah Elridge widow of Zorh
Leon
act 7 July 38
M 79. d 28.
Wm. Olcott AR

State of Connecticut } ss County of Tolland }
I, Novatus Chapman Judge of the Probate Court for Tolland District within said County of Tolland do certify that Daniel Glazier Esquire before whom the within Deposition was taken and whose certificate is annexed hereto is a Justice of Peace within and for said County of Tolland and I believe that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 30 th day of August A. 1838.
Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate for the District of Tolland

State of Connecticut S.S. Willington Aug-13 th 1838 Tolland County This may certify to all whom it may concern that I find on record Book B. for Marriages births and Deaths thirty fifth page for the Town of Willington Doeth Eldredge and Bethiah Kinkley were Lawfully joined in Marriage on the sixteenth Day of October one thousand Seven Hundred Seventy nine With the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair Sieable figures as follows The following is a true extract from the record Attest Gideon N Merick Town Clerk (sic) October 16 th 1779 then were Doeth Eldredge and Bethiah Kinkley Lawfully joined in Marriage
I, Gideon N Merick above named do hereby Say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Willington & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception of my certificate Gideon N Merick Town Clerk
State of Connecticut Tolland County - S.S. Willington Aug- 1838 Personally appeared Gideon N Merick a credible witness and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate & affidavit by him sub- scribed before me and certify that he is Town Clerk of said Town of Willington Daniel Glazier justice of the Peace

our O. W. & N. Div. L. W. B. W. Reg. 3280.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19th, 1896.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Zoeth Eldredge , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Bethiah Eldredge, widow of Zoeth Eldredge, made an application for pension on November 6th, 1838, at which time she was residing at Willington, Conn., and 78 years of age. In her application she alleged that her husband enlisted in 1775 and served a term of about one month in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war, under Capt. Ebenezer Heath; and, that he again enlisted (same year) for a term of seven months, but as no record of this last term of service could be found the claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient service.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Zoeth S. Eldredge,
488 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

I have been thinking of you and your kind words and how much I should like to see you again and to tell you all the news and how much I should like to hear from you soon and to tell you all the news and how much I should like to see you again and to tell you all the news and how much I should like to hear from you soon
I am truly your friend and brother in Christ Jesus Amen

Joeth S. Eldredge, National Bank Examiner, San Francisco, California.
488 Boylston St. Boston May 13, 1896
To the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly inform me if on the rolls of Revolutionary Pensioners there ever appeared the name of
or Joeth Eldredge , of Willington Ct. Bethiah Eldredge , his wife
I was informed, at Willington, that Bethiah, who died in 1850, was a pensioner, but the only service I have record of, was at the "Lexington Alarm" April 1775, when Joeth served 10 days.
Respectfully yours Joeth S. Eldredge

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1863.
am
2280
P. O.
Deborah Eldredge
Service: wid. of Zeph
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
May 19 '96 Clem rej: to Mr Zeph D Eldredge Boston, Mass. S.W.R.

Asa Hoxie Jul 20th 1834 Nat Linnings
Con - 3441/ Con
Sett. Incon. & Incli.
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To same Jan'y 26, 1834
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acts, 17 th July 1834 x

Feb. 1776 - Pease - Ime - H. Mass. Healk - ny
In his dec. he says the last term com d 7 Aug. L term 15 Oct. - 78

State of Connecticut } To Millington Tolland County — } August 8 th 1832.
I Solomon Fenton of Millington in said County and State aforesaid aged seventy nine years — depose and say that I was personally acquainted with Zarth Eldredge of said Millington and was knowing to his the said Eldredge performing the following service as a private soldier in the Army of the revolution (Notwithstanding the said Eldredge volunteered his service to go to Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five near the town of Boston — when the first alarm of war was given — and according to my best knowledge and belief was absent and in the service about one month — am unable to state the officer that he served under I am unable to state as I was not employed in that service
The second term of service according to my best recollection and belief was performed the same year the term of service was an enlistment for seven months and the service was rendered at Roxbury Massachusetts I will recollect the time of his leaving and it was a subject

familiar to me that he served in Capt Solomon Wells company 60th Isaac Spence Regiment I also recollect the time when he returned late in December 1775 - I heard at that time in the town with Mr Elardage and in his neighborhood and was personally acquainted with the foregoing fact although I was not in that service at that time.
The three towns of service of Mr Elardage was at New York as I served with him and this service was in the Militia although he served in Capt Parsons company and I belong to Capt Heath's company, still I was with him in the hospital sick and know that he remained in service the full term of about three months, and we returned home to Willington together - Mr Elardage and myself were sent out of New York together with others that were sick to Stamford Connecticut the a- fore said the retreat out of New York of the British State Army - we were all sick with a new disease Camp Fever - The Regt in which we served was commanded by Col Samuel Chapman - The reason of my belonging to a different company

were that there was two Antelope Companies in Millington at that time one Company was led by Capt. Joseph Parsons and the other commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Heath —
(Sworn and subscribed) to the day and year } Norton Tipton above written before me
Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate for the District of Holland

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss 3
I Am Trinton of (Wittington in said County and State aforesaid Aged Ninety years - do hereby say that I was personally acquainted with Barth Eldredge of said Wittington (now deceased) and was with him in the service in the war of the revolution in the year 1776 about three months at New York in a company commanded by Capt Joseph Parsons and in Col Samuel Chapman's Regt The day before the retreat out of New York I parted with Mr Eldredge as being sick and came to Stamford and I went into New Jersey by order of the commanding for the purpose of assisting the sick who were at there then -
I further state that in the year 1775 I entered into the service for the term of seven months under Capt Solomon Wells in Col Isaac Spencer's Regt some time in the spring of the year for the term of seven months and that Barth Eldredge was in the same company and same Regt and marched to Roxbury and

and we both remained longer than the period of our enlistment about one month as no troops came in to sup- ply our place — after which time we were regularly discharged and both returned to Wallingford
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Asa Weston
Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate for the District of Tolland

State of Connecticut Tolland County ss
Willington August 8 th . 1838
I Nathan Jennings of Willington county and state aforesaid do hereby certify two years ago and say that I was personally acquainted with Zeph Eldredge of said Willington (now deceased) and was with him the said Eldredge at Watertown Massachusetts in the year 1778 at the time of the first alarm of "War with Great Britain" wd Mr Eldredge and myself were both volunteers together in this service when at Massachusetts about one month after our arrival we were placed under the command of Capt Heath after staying from twenty days to one month we returned home I noticed that Maj Tilton of Willington started to go to Massachusetts to join the Army in that capacity but immediately after the alarm he returned home before arriving at Lexington as he was a member of the Legislature of Connecticut and that Bury called together in consequence of said alarm I further state that I am fully of the opinion that Mr Eldredge served a term of New York but am not confident as I was in the continental line and Mr Eldredge served in the Militia Sworn and subscribed The day and year above Nathan Jennings witness before me Noctus Chapman Judge of Probate for the District of Tolland

VI State of New York } County of Washington } ss. — Darius Fuller of the Town of Salem — in the County and State aforesaid Yeoman, being duly sworn deponeth and saith, That he is Eighty one years of age and upwards, that he is informed and believes the fact so to be, that he was born in the Town of Willington in the State of Connecticut, where he resided from his infancy until he was thirty two years of age — that in previous to the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he enlisted in the Connecticut line of the Army of the United States under Captain Pease (whose first name this deponent does not now recollect) of the Town of Somers in the State of Connecticut, for the term of two months from the said first day of February — and this deponent further saith that Zeph Eldridge of the said Town of Willington Farmer and Mason — with whom this deponent had been acquainted from his youth upwards, did also enlist with this deponent and others under the said Captain Pease for the term of two months as aforesaid and regularly served out his time with this deponent — That on the said first day of February the persons enlisted in the said Company were duly embodied, and joined shortly thereafter their Regiment (then under the Command of a person whose name this deponent in consequence of the great length of time since elapsed, this deponent cannot now remem- ber) and Marched to Cambridge in the Vicinity of Boston in the State of Massachusetts, and joined the main army of the United States, then under the Command of Genl. George Washington, where they remained until the Army removed to Roxbury in the State last aforesaid and remained at that place until the Company aforesaid were duly discharged.

And this deponent farther saith, that in consequence of a general call of the Militia in the State of Connecticut to repair to the City of New York, this deponent together with the said Zeph Eldridge and others from the said Town of Wellington marched to the City of New York this deponent under the command of Captain Ebenezer Heath, and the said Zeph Eldridge under the command of Captain Parsons, and remained performing regular service as Militiamen in the said City and in the vicinity after the retreat therefrom, until sometime in the forepart of October in the same year when the said Militia were duly discharged —
And this deponent farther saith, that he was well acquainted with Bethiah Spinkley the daughter of Ichabod Spinkley who was for some considerable time a Captain in the line of the Army of the United States in the State of Connecticut, before her marriage with the said Zeph Eldridge, and that according to the best of this deponent's recollection then she was married on or about the year One Thousand seven hundred and seventy nine to the said Zeph Eldridge, that this deponent is informed that the said Eldridge died about ten years since, that the said Bethiah is now living in the said Town of Wellington his Widow, which information this deponent believes to be true, and farther saith not
Sworn before me this 10 th day of September 1830. —————
The word "Lalun" written on an Erasure before sworn to —————
Isaac Dutton District of the Speaker
Darius Fuller

Affidavit of Darius Fuller

State of New York
County of Washington
Sealed I Edward Dodd clerk of the said county hereby certify that Josiah Dunton Esquire is a Justice of the Peace as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said county this 14 th day of September 1838
Edward Dodd Clerk

House of Reps
Dec 4 th 1835
Sir
I have the honor to transmit herewith the application of the Mrs. Bethiah Eldredge for a Pension
I am intimately acquainted with the old lady, as she has always lived within about a mile of my native place and I have long been satisfied that under the existing pension laws she had a meritorious claim
The Jursons who have testified in her case are all respectable men and have also resided in my native town since my earliest recollection and their statements in my judgment are entitled to full credit. Very respectfully H. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington
you Affec d & humble servant Omin O'Call

Comptroller Office Hartford Jan'y 12 1839
I certify that on application for evidence of the services of Joseph Edridge who claims service in the War of the Revolution under Capt Eben d Heath in a Capt Solomon Willes / Spencers Regiment, that the Pay Roll of Capt Heath cannot be found and that his name does not appear on the Books in this Office - that the Pay Roll of Capt Solomon Willes does not bear the name of Joseph Edridge - that on Pay Table Books is the following Account
   Capt Solomon Willes / Spencers Regt / D rs      1775 May 12  To Balance in D rs for af. 9 th Company  300. 0. 0     16  Do. do. do. do. do.  210. 0. 0     29  Do. do. do. do. do.  40. 0. 0     1775 June 1  Do. do. do. do. do.  9. 18. 6     Sep. 23  To Order on D rs for af. 9 th Company  100. 0. 0     Dec 14  To Order on D rs for af. 9 th Company  210. 0. 0     1776 Jan'y 6  To Balance in D rs for Balance of A/c  1072. 2. 1  L 1942. 0. 7    D rs / For Spencers Regiment / Cr    1776 Jan'y 6  By Account rendered for his Company       Enlisting bounties 96 Men 2, 5.   L 1942. 0. 7   
Henry Wilbourn Compt.

Mat.
Hon. O. Holt H.R.

Washington
Jan'y 22, 1839
Sir
I have the honor to transmit submit some additional evidence in the case of Mrs. Berthick Eldridge (wid) the Certificate of the Comptroller of the State and the deposition of Darius Fuller now of the State of N. York. When I made Mrs. E's declaration she was not positive whether their last residence service was rendered in Capt. Parsons Company or some other I believe that the witness were of the opinion that it was in Capt. Parsons they say I think that the service was not rendered in the same Company with themselves, meaning the last service.
Very respectfully your Obedt Servt
Hon J. S. Edwards Comr of Pen s Washington
Orin Holt

Paris
H. E. Hassler Esq.
Washington 20, D. C.
no paper
on Com Sec 12

H. E. Hassel Esq. Washington D.C. Sept. 13. 1852
claims Sir I wish You to Examine the of Zoeth Eldredge a Revolution Soldier & Report to me When You Have Settled said Zoeth Eldredge being the Father of my Wife } Elijah C. Pearl
Suspended Connecticut